JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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- Core Developer - コアディベロッパー
- Midokura Japan K.K. - ミドクラジャパン株式会社, Tokyo
- Salary: ¥4.0M ~ ¥10.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Translator
- ZAIHON, Inc. (日本財務翻訳株式会社), Tokyo
- Salary: ¥6.0M / Year Negotiable
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- Assistant Language Teacher (ALT) in Kanto region
- RCS (RCSコーポレーション), Kanto
- Salary: ¥180,000 ~ ¥250,000 / Month includes performance bonus
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hakujinsensei
If you hang out with the rugby team, people are probably going to assume you are a player.
19 yo. plus 4am plus alone = player
No one knows if she is shaking him down, which happens FREQUENTLY to silly old men here, or if he was a little too frisky before finding out the availability of the goods. HOWEVER, she should have been arrested as well and charged with vagrancy. If it did happen, the time and circumstances should be taken into account and leniency should ensue. This is a much different situation than if it had occurred at 4pm.
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hakujinsensei
What is with all the hangups in the posts here? Talk about judgmental! womanforwoman are you for real? Where did that hostility come from?
The maids are not my type, but there is nothing wrong with being attracted to that style anymore than being attracted to say, 'athletic' girls, or brunettes etc. And what the hell is wrong with fantasizing about a girl not giving you crap when you ask her to do something for you? hahaha, is it something sick and twisted for a man to fantasize about not having to beg and jump thru hoops for physical affection? Or heaven forbid that your partner would enjoy it?
And why rank on shy guys? For God's sake, do you think every guy is a Don Juan that sweet talks girls? Even in america, lots of guys are shy, fall in love with the waitress in the Denny's and go there for breakfast 4 times a week until they manage to strike up a conversation and it blossoms into romance. That happened to one of my buds and he would have been no stranger had he frequented the maid cafe because Anna made him feel special.
Sounds to me like Anna is having fun and actually doing something to deepen her understanding of Japanese life, language and culture. Good on her!
Posted in: Maid in Akihabara
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hakujinsensei
what is wrong with women being sex objects? no way to know for sure, but I am thinking that nobody put a gun to her head to make her do this. some people are rocket scientists, some people make peoples blood circulate and enjoy doing it. looks like she is the one that is control to me ; )
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hakujinsensei
one of the great boondogles of all time as aso n his crew try to buy popularity. robbing peter to pay paul never results in anything positive unless you hate peter...
when I first got to Japan a million years ago, like all americans, I detested the tolls. but I quickly came to realize that with the incredibly high population density here, the absence of ridiculously high registration fees, taxes, and tolls, the ability to own and operate a car would be affordable to too many people making road travel impossible. the simple fact is there is not enough roads for everyone to drive and we need to actively discourage it and taxes and tolls are the most efficient way to do so.
the current reduction of tolls has only served to causse me grief as I work on the road traveling to and from.... before I had the freedom to choose uncongested tollways and pay for the time and angst savings or buck up and joust my way down the lower roads. now, I am forced to slog either way...
what should really happen is a toll that changes with the traffic flow to reduce congestion at peak times and encourage use at times of low use... I guess that would be too simple.
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hakujinsensei
One reason is that most long term success in the american market is built on live performances. Lip sync performances and uniforms are just not going to cut it. Most Jpop is just not of the quality necessary not to mention that the US audience pretty much demands English. Abba didnt make it singing Swedish....
Boy bands are low talent, lip sync acts but for the average young american girl exile is not going to turn their crank like Jonas Brothers or Back Street Boys...
Utada is unique that even though she is a product of her family launching her career, she writes the majority of her music and is in fact quite talented though her stage presence is not the best. Did is slip anybodies mind that she sings in English?
If B'z , Southern Allstars, Yamazaki Masayoshi sang in English they would have sold zillions of records in the US. Puffy would have done well too in English cause they gave a great concert as does Hamazaki Ayumi.
Bottom line is no English, no sales.... unless you sing in Spanish ; ) then you can have limited success if you have talent and target California/Texas/Floriday ; )
Posted in: Why do Asian pop stars have a hard time succeeding in the U.S. market?
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hakujinsensei
quite soon, women in japan will no longer have to worry about being bothered by the boys
Posted in: Human-looking robot smiles in Japan classroom
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hakujinsensei
I think the word mom is too loosely applied to trash like her.
This article does seem to suggest that there are still some people that we could house in guantanamo bay. Would waterboarding befit the crime here?
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hakujinsensei
bandogeek, do you really think that Japan is in the shape with it's wanna be boy scouts to give anyone an ass kicking? Not to mention that China is just itchin for a chance to try their technology out on the US. and it would be the perfect chance to stand up for their underdog brethren. with the economy already on the ropes, lets throw a Chinese blockade in the mix. how much food/oil/rice/twinkies do you really think is on this little island? I would die without some aussie beef. who knows what NK would send this way if their back was against the wall. remember that Japan is downwind. I certainly would not like to be caught in the middle while I am here. Japan should spend more time making friends instead of making gross statements that need to be backed up by Obama.
Posted in: Japan wants U.N. emergency talks if N Korea launches rocket
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hakujinsensei
When Japan quits testing their own missiles and gives up its space ambitions it will have something to say about North Korea.
Japan has no business addressing the UNSC let alone becoming a member because they do not provide even their own defense let alone establish some position of partnership on a material basis for the aisia. They have done nothing sans serving as another base for American military in asia to bring stability to the region. Their divisive rhetoric and coercive regional economic policies disqualify them.
At this point, there is no conclusive intel on the nature of the launch and it is ridiculous for members of the UN to be thumbing a sovereign nation for pursuing both military and economic aims that they enjoy. Should North Korea cow tow to Japan and America at this point, they loose any bargaining power that they may have.
IF the UN wants to bring them under submission they are going to have to cough up more than a few boat loads of food to buy their sovereignty. As whack as I think the the country is, you have to admire their refusal to bend under the pressure and carrots until they get something substantial.
Posted in: Japan wants U.N. emergency talks if N Korea launches rocket
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hakujinsensei
nothing kicks the economy into gear like a military campaign ; )
unless it is the exporting of military technology and goods which is the real reason for the push to amend article 9.
money, pure and simple. it is japans last grasp at maintaining its economic might.
japans ruin was in mimicking european and american colonialism.
they continue down the same foolhardy path mimicking americas economy.
the only problem is they have not enough food nor raw materials to survive on their own for more than a couple weeks, and as soon as the neighboring countries that japan is raping for raw materials and cheap labor advance enough to prosper without being japan's step child, japan will dry up n blow away as so much fodder for the chinese that will absorb them without a shot.
japans future is in being the information center (glorified OL) and play ground ( soap ) for china.
go japan.
Posted in: Japan military assuming more global role
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hakujinsensei
No Sex? Not a date. Moot point. Next?
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hakujinsensei
nonsense
how many hundreds of kilos of jet fuel was poured into the atmosphere for this environmental project?
and very few people noticed that it was sponsored as most charitable events are by the tobacco and alcohol conglomerates tying to put the clean on their image.
when are people going to begin to look critically at these kinds of things. there is without a doubt a heavy minus on the aggregate social benefit here if one factors in the good will the death merchants receive, the environmental damage from the transportation, and of course the nonsense of any japanese trying to put forth japan as anything other than a land awash in their own garbage. honmachi may be clean, just step down the street to namba or nishinari ku to see the real japan.
this reminds me of the 'white band' anti poverty campaign a couple of years ago and the fact that when none of the funds was going to provide aid to the poor was uncovered, the chairman just responded that they never claimed the funds were going to be used as aid.
be smart. dont give to organizations that suck at the trough of the death merchants. be critical and check to see if there if the positives supersede the social costs of projects that you might think of sponsorin
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hakujinsensei
Yeah, just take em to guantanamo n waterboard em.
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hakujinsensei
And the critics of capitalism have what to offer as an alternative? The collective economic programs of china and the soviet union were all failures and have been scrapped, the soviet union crumbling under the weight of those failures.
Too much of any good thing leads to a point of diminishing returns and eventually to a meltdown. But throwing the baby out with the bath water is certainly not the answer. Each failure in life is another opportunity to grow. We will survive this and if some sense of sanity prevails we can be better for it.
The problem is that we rarely learn from our mistakes and quite often compound them by choosing the path that lessons our pain as opposed to choosing the course that leads to healing and growth because it usually entails growing pains.
The world economic system was brought to its knees in 1907 as wall street averages fell to less than 50 percent of its average value the previous year. As a result, the Federal Reserve Act created the central banking system in the US that was to prevent such panics from occurring again. Just 2 decades later the greatest economic meltdown of modern times was fostered at the hands the architects of the titanic like system.
The current tax and spend free for all is just like the slash and burn environmental policies that are eroding our rain forests and bankrupting our children's futures. That is not to say that Keynes was all wet. True strength comes with flexibility. But reason dictates that whatever we spend today, we will have to repay in the future. With interest. Just where do these economic einsteins think that money is going to come from to fuel consumer purchases if the government sucks up all the available credit?
The world is indeed floundering. We have forgotten the value of hard work, thrift and savings. The way out of this situation is the nationalize the banks and sell the assets assigning the outstanding notes to fannie mae, hold corporate executives criminally liable for mismanagement instead of guaranteeing their wages and bonuses, eliminate the ability of corporations to own stock, return to the gold standard, eliminate the Federal Reserve Bank, establish capital and debt limits for capitalization as a percentage of the money supply, and change the tax code to reward savings as opposed to spending.
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hakujinsensei
I cant think of a more perfect way to effectively show the world the depth of Japanese culture. These girls epitomize all things Japanese. Good on you foreign ministry!
Posted in: Ambassadors of Cute
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hakujinsensei
Congrats to all the students that passed the test for today and all the other fine institutions here. My son was accepted this year at a second rung college and having watched him struggle, I am deeply impressed by the 3000 odd kids that made it in to Todai. I never had to study like that to get in to my college in the US. I have no doubt that he is a finer man because of it.
There are plenty of odd things about this little island country, but I dont blame it on the colleges.
That young man is about to embark on a tremendous adventure and will have the privilege of studying and forging relationships with the future leaders of Japan. His will and character will lead him to be either a paper pusher or a world changer. Japan is full of energetic creative people if one were open minded enough to see thru the fog.
Personally, having not graduated from college due to an odd twist of fate that left me unable to register for my final term, I am green with envy!
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hakujinsensei
smartacus is right. if the workers couldnt make it as automatons, how in the world could they make it as care givers that have to think on their feet and play entertainer, baby sitter, counselor, and pseudo nurse at the same time. takes a special person, no doubt about it. I think the three in todays picture could possibly be cut out for the job. they should just cull the ranks of talentless 'talento' n reassign them. what about aging and disillusioned sex workers? got a unique skill set there that is terribly underutilized after they retire. then they could take the unemployed and rotate them thru as c.e.o's of financial firms and use them to replace the diet and primeminister. surely they could no worse than the status quo. how bout an emperor of the week?
Posted in: The government is encouraging unemployed people to become health care workers because there is a chronic shortage in the nursing care business. Do you think that is a good idea?
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hakujinsensei
It is absolutely true that consolidating retail sales in large corporate supermarkets etc. has brought lower prices due to economy of scale and eliminating distribution and redistribution. However anyone that thinks that the lower prices are anything more than a temporary measure to assure a monopoly of local market share is mistaken. As soon as market share superiority is assured, market forces in the form of a lack of competition will result in much higher prices and a lack of selection.
Of course, government regulation would make the situation worse so the only real long term solution is a shift in buying and entrepreneurial paradigms. There is value in paying 10 yen more for tissue if it enables grandmas store to continue operation broadening selection and convenience. Investing in our communities is and investment in ourselves.
There is also value in running a smaller or specialized shop with regards to personal satisfaction and ones standard of living. And a standard of living is not realized solely on ones year end net income and the brand of car in the driveway ( or down the road in your 200 dollar a month parking spot for those of us in Japan ; )
Yen and dollars are not everything and valuable business curriculums should begin to recognize this fact instead of fast tracking students to corporate drone positions.
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hakujinsensei
love a good old fashioned brawl, but over something important like a football game or politics or something important... a girl?
bobbafett hit the nail on the head.
Posted in: Four injured after 10 men brawl in Saitama family restaurant
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hakujinsensei
timorboroder, there are plenty of slums all over japan. poverty is no stranger here with close to 16 percent living in relative poverty.
Osakadaz, why was your mate putting on a charity show in nishinari? should have been performing in amemura or umeda to bring in support.
tmarie, it is easy to make fun of people, it takes a little more starch to make a difference. those guys down there are for the most disfunctional and disenfranchised to the point that a good suit of clothes would have the effect of dressing up a monkey. it is true that they had the choice to choose a better path for their lives but the companies that used them to build those beautiful buildings roads and parks in Osaka did so with no regard for those day laborers as people. they were enticed, conjolled and taken advantage of and were left with no means of support after their knees, backs and strained grips gave out. regardless of the cause, they are human beings and they are our brothers and it is our responsibility to treat them accordingly. there are always going to be people taking advantage of the system but that should not dissuade us from doing the right thing. prevention for this kind of thing begins at the beginning with education. a good start would be to include high school in the basic education for Japanese. most of these guys didnt finish even junior high school and were not encouraged to continue because the labor market existed and the school was more than happy to rid themselves of low achieving students..... rather than complain, we should be investing in our communities and raising our young with a sense of belonging and teaching them to be wise enough to plan for the future.
anyone wanting to see for themselves can leave a message at http://kozmoz.org and come pass out food and clothing in nishinari and other impoverished places in kansai.
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